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事物

shì wù

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

事物 (shì wù) means "thing; object". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 事物 means

1. thing; object

The characters in 事物

• 事shìmatter; thing; item
• 物wù(bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself…

Example sentences

• 她总是尝试新事物。
  She is always trying new things.

Sounds the same

Read shì wù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 事务(political, economic etc) affairs; work; transaction (as in a computer database)
• 饰物decorations; jewelry
• 世务worldly affairs

Where 事物 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Practice, Implementation & Achievement (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shì wù correctly.
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